Re: newbie-questions

[Jeff Kingston]

On Tue, 02 Oct 2001 08:13:15 -0700, Albert Kinderman wrote:
  > I only know Lout at a very elementary level, but I thought that lout 
  > (modified to handle two column footnotes) would yield the following 
  > after the first footnote:
  > 
  > (A)
  > 
  > MMMMMMM(1)MMMMMMM
  > MMMMMMMMMMM
  > 
  > 
  > ---
  > 
  > [1] mmmm   mmmmmm
  > mmmmmmmm   mmmmmm
  > 
  > i.e., the footnote would be compressed to use the least amount of space 
  > necessary at the bottom of the page.  Since two columns  are available, 
  > the footnote would use both, flowing from the first to the second.
  > 

Lout does not understand that you can save space by equalizing the
heights of columns, in footnotes or anywhere else.  An it inserts
footnotes directly after inserting the lines they are anchored to.

Jeff